High Bless rush strategy :(

[Belcarl]

Haven't encountered a super bless strat in MP yet, so just throwing out some ideas.

What about Mind burn + Communion? Thau lvl 2 should be able to dish this out if you can recruit astral mages. So Ermor, pythium and C'tis should be able to paralyze and kill expensive sacred units with MR below 13...

Nature mages gets Vine arrows at Evoc lvl 2. does 14+ damage and entangles the enemy.

For low strenght enemies (Mictlan?) Conjuration 1 gives tangle vines.

Thaumaturgy lvl 2, Bonds of fire. Requires F1.
Alteration lvl 2, Earth meld. Req E2
Alteration lvl 1, False fetters, Req A2

Combine this with some long range attacks like archers, or artillery mages to actually kill off the Blessed troops.

So basically Blood and death are the paths with problems if you cannot get lvl 2 mages of a certain path to spamm the above spells. In theory that is....

[DominionsFan]

Graeme Dice said:

I'm sorry, but that's an absurd exaggeration. There is no way that the forces those nations could gather on a 10 province per player map would be able to capture the C'tissian castle by turn 8. This is especially true with the imprisoned pretender necessary for a dual bless strategy.

Just an example. Turn 4: QM has rushed my niefel capital with a mictlan [IIRC] uber bless strategy. The map was silent seas, and the game was a 5 FFA.
I've also rushed many players before turn 5-6 with high bless sacred builds in blitzes.

[Graeme Dice]

DominionsFan said:
Just an example. Turn 4: QM has rushed my niefel capital with a mictlan [IIRC] uber bless strategy. The map was silent seas, and the game was a 5 FFA.

And did he manage to capture your capital before turn 8?

[DominionsFan]

Graeme Dice said:

And did he manage to capture your capital before turn 8?

Heh, I had to throw in the towel of course. I had no choince against that fast rush. Niefel cannot field enough troops for turn 4.

[Graeme Dice]

DominionsFan said:
Heh, I had to throw in the towel of course. I had no choince against that fast rush. Niefel cannot field enough troops for turn 4.

So how many of his troops did you kill during the final siege?